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Post by bluesbruce on Jun 7, 2020 6:40:12 GMT -6
Okay, time for the next lick from BLYCU, Lick 5. This is another 4 bar lick fitting over the first four bars of the 12-bar quick change blues. After this one, we get to move on to the middle four bars! Anyway, here's the lick (Guitar Pro version) over the backing track, followed by the audio version over a metronome click. Sorry, but again the audio version seems to be recorded at a slightly different tempo than the backing track on this one. We'll call the due date June 21 for this one.
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Post by grampalerxst on Jun 20, 2020 18:20:08 GMT -6
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Post by bluesbruce on Jun 21, 2020 5:44:03 GMT -6
That's cookin', grampa. Lick 5 nicely played, the rest of your chorus sounds good, great tone. Hard to address the "it's a little weird" part. Was the rest of your chorus based from "Blues By The Bar"? Maybe someone else can put a finger on it. I'm probably going to be tardy with this assignment - I'm having to work this weekend. We'll move on to Lick 6 after this one, but I may be late getting that "assignment" posted as well... If I'm able to get off work at any decent time, I'll get this stuff posted, but I haven't recorded anything yet, and it might be tomorrow.
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Post by grampalerxst on Jun 21, 2020 6:09:08 GMT -6
That's cookin', grampa. Lick 5 nicely played, the rest of your chorus sounds good, great tone. Hard to address the "it's a little weird" part. Was the rest of your chorus based from "Blues By The Bar"? Maybe someone else can put a finger on it. I'm probably going to be tardy with this assignment - I'm having to work this weekend. We'll move on to Lick 6 after this one, but I may be late getting that "assignment" posted as well... If I'm able to get off work at any decent time, I'll get this stuff posted, but I haven't recorded anything yet, and it might be tomorrow. Thanks, Bruce. I just talked about it a little in the weekly thread. IIRC the final 8 bars was pretty much all lifted from Blues by the Bar. But there is a little merging of licks in a couple spots, and some I didn't replicate faithfully (truth be told, none of it was replicated faithfully--I don't have the chops for what I was trying to pull off). The BBTB licks are set to a shuffle rhythm in G at a noticeably slower tempo than our slow blues. So the process of speeding them up and transposing a fourth higher while overlaying them on a 12/8 groove changes their character a lot in my perception. Maybe it sounds less weird to someone who hadn't been listening to the original versions. And overall to my ear it just doesn't flow right. Seems like I'm always trying to do something in these practice choruses that involves playing faster than I should, and I inadvertently doubled down on that by taking some phrases of reasonable speed and jacking them up 20%. So every time I play it it's like closing your eyes and taking a leap. I got lucky in capturing that chorus. Unlike normal where I get something recorded I feel is a little worse than the better side of my normal practicing range, that was the single best attempt I'd made, practicing or recording. If I worked on it a little longer it might grow on me.
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Post by joachim on Jun 21, 2020 7:54:59 GMT -6
Awesome, Grampa!
I am a little late - I'll try to put something up tonight.
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Post by jack1982 on Jun 21, 2020 8:14:57 GMT -6
Good stuff Grampa!
I'm going to be a bit late too, hopefully get something posted in the next day or two.
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Post by cunningr on Jun 21, 2020 9:45:28 GMT -6
I have been practicing the lick but have not tried putting it to track yet, so count me as late again.
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Post by joachim on Jun 21, 2020 14:05:06 GMT -6
I really went above and beyond to make the deadline this week... It turns out I cannot record video with my webcam anymore - I recently upgraded my version of Ubuntu, and some things must have changed.
Finally I gave up and made a crappy phone recording:
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Post by joachim on Jun 21, 2020 14:05:24 GMT -6
I really went above and beyond to make the deadline this week... It turns out I cannot record video with my webcam anymore - I recently upgraded my version of Ubuntu, and some things must have changed.
Finally I gave up and made a crappy phone recording:
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Post by Phil on Jun 21, 2020 15:16:27 GMT -6
Impressive playing by Gramps and Joachim. You guys are taking this stuff to another level.
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Post by bluesbruce on Jun 21, 2020 16:30:27 GMT -6
Very tasteful, Joachim. I'm not sure which one of those I like better!
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Post by grampalerxst on Jun 21, 2020 17:26:35 GMT -6
Finally I gave up and made a crappy phone recording: Joachim, I really liked that. Even though I couldn't hear a couple notes because phone didn't pick them up, some really tasty passages. I might steal some! Bruce should award you extra credit for working in a lot of nods to the prior BLYCU licks.
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Post by grampalerxst on Jun 22, 2020 5:43:36 GMT -6
Thanks, Jack! Thanks, Joachim! Impressive playing by Gramps and Joachim. You guys are taking this stuff to another level. Thanks, Phil! I'm really going to double down now that I know there's a Flawless Bends Bestowal at play!
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